Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

Integrated Care System; Lymington; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare trust in Lymington is seeking a Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician. This role involves ensuring safe and effective use of medicines, patient counseling, and collaboration with healthcare staff. Applicants need NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences, GPhC registration, and experience in pharmacy. The position offers a salary of £31,049 to £37,796 annually based on full-time hours.

Qualifications

• Post qualification experience in a section of pharmacy with direct patient contact.
• Experience of POD scheme and medicines reconciliation.

Responsibilities

• Dispensing inpatient, outpatient, or discharge medication as required.
• Counseling patients on the use of medicines.
• Timely medicines reconciliation to in-patient units and community teams.

Skills

Common sense

Logical thinking

Ability to work independently

Excellent communication skills

Attention to detail

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent

Accredited checking technician status

Current GPhC registration

Job description

Go back Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Medicines Management Pharmacy Technician

The closing date is 10 August 2025

We are seeking a Medicines' Management Pharmacy Technician to join our team at Lymington Hospital in the New Forest. We need someone who has abundant common sense, is a logical and practical thinker, who is reliable and able to deal with pressure. The successful applicant will be able to work in team and also act independently as required.

This role is intended to promote the safe and effective utilisation of medicines in all care situations, working with care staff and patients directly. It requires practitioners to understand the patient's pathways of care and how best to optimise patients' concordance with medicines. There is a requirement to be able and confident in dealing with patients, carers and healthcare staff internally and other organisations to ensure patients are safe with their medicines.

If this is of interest to you please do contact us for a chat or to arrange an informal visit.

Main duties of the job

This post will have a degree of autonomy to act on individual patient medicine pharmaceutical care, ensuring timely medicines reconciliation to in-patient units and community teams as appropriate in line with Trust standards and to facilitate a smooth admission to services.

This will involve dispensing inpatient, outpatient or discharge medication as required, as well as re-supplying PODs and non-ward stock items when necessary

The role includes advising patients, carers and GP staff on issues relating to medication regimes and changes to prescribing. The postholder will also provide patient counselling on the use of medicines to selected patients as well as providing information on common drug dosage and use.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a newly established organisation, bringing together expertise from across mental health, learning disabilities, community, and physical health services. We are dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality, and accessible care to the diverse communities of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

With over 13,000 dedicated staff working across more than 300 sites, we place patients and staff at the centre of everything we do. Our goal is to create an integrated healthcare system that improves accessibility and ensures more consistent care for patients. By working together, we aim to improve patient outcomes, drive innovation, and meet the unique needs of the populations we serve.

Our Trust unites services from Southern Health, Solent NHS Trust, Isle of Wight NHS Trusts community and mental health teams, as well as Hampshire CAMHS, originally part of Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. This transformation enables us to deliver more seamless care across the region, ensuring that patients receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

Join us as we embark on this exciting journey to shape the future of healthcare across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. We are deeply committed to our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect, and excellence, and offer outstanding opportunities for career development, training, and collaborative working.

Job responsibilities

1. Ensuring timely medicines reconciliation to in-patient units and community teams as appropriate in line with Trust standards and to facilitate a smooth admission to services.

2. Assessing suitability and checking identity of PODs for extended use on wards

3. Appropriately referring interventions to the clinical pharmacists or liaising with other members of the MDT within scope and experience.

5. Expiry date checking and all other dispensary duties.

6. Documenting interventions and discrepancies on the electronic patient records.

7. Re-supplying PODs and non-ward stock items when necessary

8. Initiating requests for ward stock

9. Adhering to the medicine safety agenda and reporting any incidents as appropriate.

10. Assisting in training of staff as appropriate.

11. Contributing to the medicine's management audit agenda.

12. Providing patient counselling on the use of medicines to selected patients.

13. Assessing suitability of PODs for discharge medicines.

14. As part of the clinical pharmacy team organising timely supply of new or additional items required for discharge.

15. As part of the pharmacy team organising where necessary compliance aids for individual patients (medication reminder cards, MDS devices etc.).

16. Liaising with other health care professionals regarding pharmaceutical discharge needs of patients including checking appropriate risk assessments have been undertaken

17. Liaising with community pharmacists and General Practitioners regarding difficulties in supply of medicines to smooth the discharge plan.

18. Undertaking necessary continuing education in the Pharmacy department and keep abreast of new developments in Pharmacy.

19. Undertaking other duties as required by the Lead Pharmacy Technician.

20. Covering leave in other localities as required.

21. Maintain ACPT and Medicine management qualification.

22. Undertake duties in accordance with the legal framework for the supply of medicines including:

* Ordering

* Receiving -- accurately checking & entering goods received into Pharmacy on computer system

* Invoicing

* Dealing with and resolving any discrepancies or issues

* Dealing with Suppliers

This post will have a degree of autonomy to act on individual patient medicine pharmaceutical care, to bring improvements to safety to the patient as discovered. There is an expectation that the post holder will practice within safe limits and always refer to supervising pharmacist when unsure or when there is need to resolve complex or more challenging situations

Day to day supervision; Professional/ clinical supervision; undertake basic workplace assessments Supervises, trains less experienced technicians, students, other staff; basic work-based assessments.

Data entry, text processing, storage of data; Regular requirement to develop or create reports, documents, drawings; responsible for maintaining one or more information systems, significant job responsibility.

Participate in agreed policies and propose changes to practices, procedures for own area/ propose policy or service changes, impact beyond own area. Interventions that produce direct improvements in patient safety will be recorded to demonstrate effectiveness. Participating in agreed policy and systems audits will also demonstrate performance and quality of service.

Provides pharmacy service including dispensing drugs to patients and providing information on common drug dosage and use; Advises patients, carers, GP staff on issues relating to medication regimes and changes to prescribing

Handle cash, valuables; maintain stock control/ authorised signatory Collects prescription charges; ensures security of drugs and materials for production of pharmaceutical products/ authorises invoices for supplies

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in Pharmaceutical Sciences or equivalent
• Accredited checking technician status or likely to achieve within 6 months
• Current GPhC registration
• Current driving licence -- must have own transport
• Training in patient counselling
• Supervisory skills

Experience

• Post qualification experience in a section of pharmacy with direct patient contactGood oral presentation skillsAble to relate well to wide range of peopleAbility to work independentlyExcellent communication skillsExcellent attention to detailAwareness of current NHS environmentSafety of medicines and current trends in medicines managementNHS procurement systems and contracts
• Experience of POD scheme and medicines reconciliation

Additional Criteria

• Common sense, logical practical thinkerReliable and able to deal with pressureAble to work in team and independently as required.Discretion
• TactfulEvidence of team role and multidisciplinary work.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£31,049 to £37,796 a yearBased on full time hours